Advocates already pushing for a satisfactory farm bill in 2023 October 9, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News The current farm bill doesn’t expire until 2023, yet already advocates are lining up their arguments to assemble the kind of farm bill they want to see next year.
Cardinal: Business must ensure products, services contribute to common good October 8, 2022By Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News Cardinal Peter Turkson, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, told a New Orleans symposium that the Catholic Church encourages CEOs and other business leaders to embrace the notion of their being “co-creators” with God.
Hurricane Ian has created uncertainties, hardships for Florida families October 7, 2022By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News Lee County in Florida will need a lot of rebuilding and flood-related cleanup and restoration for the foreseeable future after Hurricane Ian.
Pope appoints new cardinals as members of dicasteries October 7, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis appointed several recently created cardinals to be members of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia, the Vatican announced.
Thailand day care massacre an act of ‘unspeakable violence,’ pope says October 7, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said he was “deeply saddened” after hearing the news of one of the world’s worst mass shootings at a day care center in northeast Thailand.
Seminar panelists: Clergy abuse has scarred minority Catholic communities October 7, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News The image of a white victim does not tell the complete story of clergy sexual abuse in the United States, according to a number of panelists during an Oct. 5 online forum titled “Neglected Voices in the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis.”
Texas executes inmate who won court battle over prayer in death chamber October 7, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News John Ramirez, a Texas inmate who won a legal battle with the Supreme Court to have his pastor pray aloud over him and place his hands on him in the execution chamber, was executed by lethal injection Oct. 5.
Parish, Catholic Charities supply water, food to Florida migrants after Ian October 6, 2022By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News Father Patrick O’Connor said his immigrant community, composed mostly of Mexican and Central American laborers, is most in need simply of food and water donations after Hurricane Ian, as the supply chain situation hasn’t been great.
USCCB, military archdiocese oppose VA’s proposed abortion services rule October 6, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archdiocese for the Military Services have filed a joint statement objecting to a rule proposed by the Biden administration to allow abortions to be performed on demand in health programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
True discernment requires knowing oneself, pope says October 5, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News During his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 5, the pope said that knowing oneself requires “patient soul-searching” and the awareness of one’s “way of acting, of the feelings that dwell within us.”
Swiss cardinal apologizes for Nazi reference in critique of Synodal Path October 5, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News In a meeting with the president of the German bishops’ conference, Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch apologized for offending people and said he never intended to imply that supporters of the German church’s Synodal Path were doing something similar to what a group of Christian supporters of the Nazis did in the 1930s.
CRS launches campaign to build greater Catholic response to climate change October 5, 2022By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services is kicking off a campaign to build greater Catholic response to climate change and foster greater awareness of how climate change affects vulnerable communities.
